The general rule of thumb is to cross-post.
The biggest reason for NOT multi-post is wasting people's time.
If someone answers the question in one newsgroup completely, but in another
newsgroup it remains "empty" (no feedback), someone might come along and
dedicate 10,20, 30 minutes (or 10,20,30 seconds, it doesn't really matter)
to a question that already has been completely answered in another
newsgroup.
While this was a quick-hit question, some people who help spend their time
to help. And sometimes the responses take a longer amount of time.
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If I called you (as a friend) and said "I just got a flat tire in the
interstate, can you come help me fix it?" and you drove 20 minutes to get to
him, and then when you get there, you see that I called ~another~ friend and
they ~already~ had the tire fixed........you'd be like "Hey, why did you
call two people to help you?" or (at the least) "Could you have not called
me and said you already had someone helping you?"
Most people (if they had been the person with the flat tire) would be like
"I'm apologize that didn't call you back, and I apologize that I wasted your
time"
In a newsgroup because we don't really have personal relationships with
people, we don't think that much about wasting other people's time.
But the usual result of multi-posting is in fact, wasting someone's time,
because alot of times it is already addressed.
The other issue is future googler's (bing'ers) out there. You are searching
for something, and then instead of it being a single thread, its scattered
over several threads.
My favorite flavor of these is "Oh, nevermind, I found the answer", and then
the person doesn't post the answer. So they are "takers" instead of
"givers".
So if you find your own answer, then post your own answer. Then future
searchers will find a solution, not a dead end to the thread.
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If your case I would have made the second posting ( a seperate post ), but
maybe clarified it with "I'm posting this in a different newsgroup on
purpose, because I want two different perspectives".
The majority of time, multi-posts are what I described, wasting someone's
time.
But I see your point. Again, I would have posted the "I'm doing this on
purpose".
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethic_of_reciprocity
Ethic of reciprocity
I would also distinquish that there is a difference between
"If you don't want it done to you, don't do it to others"
vs
"So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them"
The first one is simple omission. The second one is much "deeper" because
if involves the commission of acts.
Please do not multi post.
I posted on SQL group because this has something to do with SQL since
my ID's comes from SQL and I would like to have coherent ID or id
across my SQL and C# code.
I wanted to ear SQL people opinion to ... And not only C# people.
I understand that many people, like me, use both groups but when
posting a message I see it as two different groups.
If you notest on the other post I removed part of the code. The one
referring to the method.
I left only the Entity code so people in SQL group understands that I
am mapping the SQL tables to C# using EF.
In this case, is multi posting so wrong?
I really didn't have that intention. I really wanted to ear both
parts.
With no disrespect.
Thanks,
Miguel